Why rpm and deb package formats are not unified into one standard system?
I had this question asked on stackoverflow, but it was closed “as not a real question”.
Work flow when editing files in /var/www. Constantly needing to input “sudo” commands
I installed Apache2 and PHP5 last night on my fresh Linux Mint machine.
What are the advantages of programming to under an OS as opposed to bare metal executive?
Assume you are presented with an embedded system application to program, in C, on a multi-core environment (think a Cavium or Tilera) and need to choose between two environments:
Linux OpenGL programming, should I use GLX or any other?
I’m new to OpenGL and found that there are a lot of libraries to do that in C,
and I also found that glx is most friendly with Linux X Server, I just want to do basic stuff, and I cannot find any tutorials for GLX.
Issues with time slicing
I was trying to see the effect of time slicing, and how it can consume significant amount of time. Actually, I was trying to divide a certain task into a number of threads and see the effect.
Shared FIFO file descriptor
is ok to open fifo with one FD and share it with multiple threads?
or is it better to have multiple fds opened for the same fifo and share these fds with the threads?
BTW, I’ll be doing write and read.
What is the relationship between OpenGL, GLX, DRI, and Mesa3D?
I am starting out doing some low-level 3D programming in Linux. I have a lot of experience using the higher level graphics API OpenInventor.
Is it possible to keep only one Database for both web and desktop applications?
I’m experiencing a trouble with my business model, let me explain better.
What are the options for setting up a UNIX environment to learn C using Kernighan and Richie’s The C Programming Language?
I’m a novice programmer and have been experimenting with Javascript, jQuery and PHP but felt I wasn’t getting a real depth of understanding of what I was doing. So, after reading Joel Spolsky’s response to a question on this site (which I can’t find now!), I took it back to basics and read Charles Petzold’s ‘Code’ and am about to move onto Kernighan and Richie’s The C Programming Language. I want to learn this in a UNIX environment but only have access to a Windows system. I have Ubuntu 12.04 running on a virtualised machine via VMWare Player, and done some coding in the terminal.
Difference between Windows and Linux development environments? [closed]
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